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https://snarfed.org/2025-02-07_54637

Published: February 8, 2025 01:28

Learned just now that my name Ryan comes from Gaelic and supposedly, maybe apocryphally, means ā€œshort king.ā€ I amā€¦neither of those things. šŸ˜†

https://snarfed.org/2025-02-05_54620

Published: February 5, 2025 18:59

Another stunning statistic: Google and Appleā€™s income from app store fees on games is likely higher than all game publishersā€™ combined income, both mobile and non-mobile. Holy crap. Talk about egregious rent-seeking. (Matthew Ballā€˜s The State of Videoā€¦

https://snarfed.org/2025-01-31_54582

Published: January 31, 2025 19:32

Iā€™ve used Emacs for the last 25 years or so. Over half my life! There are lots of other great editors, I try them now and then, but I realized a while back that Iā€™ll probably use Emacs until I die. Iā€™m ok with that.

https://snarfed.org/2025-01-27_54561

Published: January 27, 2025 16:39

Heard a stunning statistic just now: new WDM gear can do 1.6Tbps on a single strand of fiber. Holy crap. (Decoder, Gary Smith / Nilay Patel, 13:46)

Interactive navigation in embedding space

https://snarfed.org/2025-01-23_54543

Published: January 23, 2025 22:09

tdjgordon, Pixabay Discussed a fascinating idea for a foundation model tool at lunch today: interactive navigation in embedding space. Right now, you prompt most generative models with human language. That works, but itā€™s imprecise and coarse. If youā€™reā€¦

https://snarfed.org/2025-01-22_54538

Published: January 23, 2025 07:22

Enjoyed this early proposal for an alternative to BGP/OSPF from way back in 1964. Even more bottom-up! ASes donā€™t claim routes or prefixes at all, they just send packets with source IPs and per-hop TTLs, and shortest paths converge backward based on those.